INTERNATIONALThe World Conservation Union (ICUN) in Gland, Switzerland is the centre for much of the official and semi-official work in species conservation and the publisher of the annual Red List of endangered species. Much of the preparatory work for the list is done by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre at Cambridge University, Britain.Environmental Liaison Centre International, PO Box 72461, Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: 2542 562015, Fax: 2542 562175, is headquarters of the NGO liaison group on the UN Biodiversity Convention.

Resources:BOOKSThe Sixth Extinction (Richard Leakey, Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1996) is a definitive and refreshingly clear study of biological history and the role of humans in shaping the most recent crisis of the biosphere.

Biodiversity (ed EO Wilson, National Academy Press, Washington, 1988) is an excellent collection of over 50 articles by various scientists and ecologists touching on every aspect of the biodiversity dispute. Tough reading sometimes, but well worth it. Planetary Overload (AJ McMicheal, Cambridge University Press, 1993) provides a good summary of the ways in which the human species is demanding too much of the earth.

Vanishing Birds: Their Natural History and Conservation (Tim Halliday, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1978) gives the shocking history of how we have pushed so many birds either to or over the edge of extinction.

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